# American Standard **Domain:** Standards / Civic Reliability **System:** [[wiki/American System|American System]] ## Definition The American Standard is the compact expectation that freedom should become reliable through competence, truthful conduct, self-command, useful design, and service. It does not prescribe a single class costume or personality. It supplies common tests that can travel from an ordinary household to a laboratory, public office, command center, company, or diplomatic room. The standard is proven when conduct remains coherent after conditions cease to be decorative. ## Place in the American System American Standard is developed from [[american/American Ethos - The Governing Idea|American Ethos - The Governing Idea]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/Common Standard|Common Standard]] · [[wiki/American Refinement|American Refinement]] · [[wiki/National Capability Culture|National Capability Culture]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Ethos - The Governing Idea|American Ethos - The Governing Idea]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].